Billy Miller and David Gordon Garrett were hellraisers and running buddies. It was the early 1970s and the two men cut a sometimes-lawless swath between Muncie and Dunkirk. And one night, one of the men was killed and the other accused of the crime.

Paula Garrett case timeline March 25, 1979: Paula Garrett's dead body is found in the bedroom of the duplex where she lived in the 2300 block of Primrose Lane on Muncie's southeast side. Garrett, 22, suffered 'numerous' skull fractures.

• Richard Green. Then 36 years old, the married Muncie man was Paula Garrett’s boyfriend at the time of her 1979 murder. He was initially charged with the crime but the charge was dropped within a few weeks. Green remains in the Muncie area.

A quarter-century ago, two Muncie teenagers were shot to death in a city park. Twenty-five years after their young lives were snuffed out, families still grieve, friends still mourn, police officers still remember -- and a killer still goes unpunished.

May 16, 2014

About Cold Case: Muncie

Debuting in 2010, Cold Case: Muncie is a recurring Star Press series that re-examines unsolved murders — some notable, some forgotten except to the family and friends of the victims — from the Muncie area over the past several decades.

The series, by Douglas Walker and Keith Roysdon, won the award for best news series in 2011 from the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. An initial cold case story, marking the 25th anniversary of the Westside Park murders in 2010, won the 2011 Kent Cooper Award from the Indiana Associated Press.